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RB 58/00013 Prospecting for white clay deposits - County Jervois (21/1/1964).
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Published: 01 Jan 1967
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RB 60/00063 Geological reconnaissance of the coastal areas of southern Eyre Peninsula for molybdenite and scheelite.
Rocks in the Flinders and Hutchinson groups are exposed sporadically around the coast of Eyre Peninsula. Reported occurrences of molybdenite and scheelite in these rock types were investigated. No significant rare metal minerals were found in the...-
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Published: 23 Mar 1965
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RB 61/00024 Amphibolite deposit, Tumby Bay district. First report - Highways and Local Government Department.
Mapping of amphibolite outcrop and float indicates that there is in excess of 100,000 cu. Yards of material possibly suitable for screenings. Gravels and clays may obscure material which would substantially increase these reserves. Two diamond...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1967
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RB 78/00019 Petrological descriptions of 60 rocks from the Middle Camp, Narridy Creek and Plug Range areas, eastern Eyre Peninsula.
Describes rocks from 3 areas formerly mapped as Flinders Group. Granites in each area are distinctively different, but metasediments are similar.-
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Published: 01 Jan 1978
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RB 79/00047 Port Lincoln planning study, engineering geology investigation.
The area surrounding Port Lincoln can be divided into three main physiographic regions, the aeolianite plain, the coastal plain, and the highlands. Soil types range from shallow, well-drained terra rossa overlying the aeolianite, to imperfectly...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1979
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RB 80/00019 Microstructural development of mylonites near Cowell, eastern Eyre Peninsula, South Australia.
Reports on part of major structural study. The mylonite zone has developed by progressive deformation and recrystal- lization of high grade gneisses during regional fold event. The micro- structural development corresponds with sequence of...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1980
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RB 80/00124 Drilling of dolomite for road sealing aggregate, Lipson, Eyre Peninsula. Sections 413, 414 Hundred Yaranyacka, County Flinders - Highways Department.
160 000 m3 of stone in situ is required to supply crushed rock and sealing aggregate. Diamond drilling of 2 calcrete hard, grey dolomite outcrops 4.5 km NW of Lipson revealed a deep weathering profile in section 413. Inferred reserves at the northern...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1980
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RB 94/00024 Graphite in South Australia - A review of production, use and geology.
South Australian graphite is reviewed in the light of published information on world deposits. A high quality coarse flake product has been mined at Uley on southern Eyre Peninsula. Geophysical investigations of deposits near Kimba are warranted, to...-
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Published: 01 Aug 1994
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RB 93/00037 Review of exploration for kaolin in the Kimba area, Eyre Peninsula, South Australia.
During 1969-72, kaolinised bedrock south of Kimba on northern Eyre Peninsula was investigated by Pechiney and CSR Ltd as a potential source of alumina. Exploration drilling of 102 holes outlined 4 broad areas of kaolinisation at Kelly Tank,...-
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Published: 01 Sep 1993
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Lipson Cove - Tumby Bay area. Annual and final reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 2/9/2004 to 1/9/2008.
Geological mapping of an historically worked lamellar talc occurrence in the Tumby Bay area showed that snow white, finely flaky talc is present over a 2 km strike length within two beds of isoclinally folded schistose dolomitic limestone, but is of...-
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Verran and Fair View (the Corunna Project). Joint annual reports and final report to licences' joint expiry/full surrender, for the period 29/4/2005 to 28/4/2009.
A search for possible economic North/South Alligator Rivers or McArthur River (NT) style epicratonic, unconformity - related sedimentary uranium deposits was conducted across two licences taken up over areas located west and south of Cleve on central...-
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Lake Gilles. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 19/5/1969 to 18/5/1970.
Exploration for possible economic hypogene base metal sulphide deposits associated with poorly exposed iron-rich linear outcrops, overlying faulted Archaean to Palaeoproterozoic basement which is obscured by extensive Cainozoic sedimentary cover rocks...-
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Published: 01 Apr 1970
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Carappee Hill. First, second and third partial surrender report, for the period 1/2/2016 to 31/01/2021.
Two separate blocks together comprising 164 square km or ~10% of the former area of EL 5877 have been relinquished. No work was done on them. The ground had been taken up primarily to explore for possible economic graphite mineralisation which could...-
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Mikkira (south-west of Port Lincoln). Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender for the period 2/3/1981 to 27/10/1987.
Exploration for graphite primarily, and secondarily for BIF-associated massive base metal sulphides, in the area surrounding the historic Uley graphite mine situated 15 km west south-west of Port Lincoln, initially comprised an airborne reconnaissance...-
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Published: 30 Oct 1987
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Lake Gilles area. Data release made in lieu of submitting a partial surrender report upon licence renewal : progress reports for the period 26/10/1989 to 10/2/2001.
Menninnie Dam - style Pb-Zn mineralisation in areas north and east of Lake Gilles was the initial target of exploration. A ground magnetic survey conducted along five lines was followed by shallow auger drilling (302 holes, total 1099 m) plus lag,...-
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Pondooma / Ironstone Hut (part of the Northern Eyre Peninsula Project). Final report at licence full surrender, for the period 3/12/2002 to 24/9/2015.
An area originally granted as Exploration Licence 3048 Pondooma, which consisted of two separate sub-blocks centred ~60 km south-west of Whyalla, was applied for to cover a poorly exposed belt of banded iron formation (BIF) strata identified on...-
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Rudall. Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 24/5/2012 to 23/5/2017.
A small area centred ~ 19 km west-northwest of Cleve was taken up primarily to explore for possible economic buried graphite mineralisation that might have formed within highly metamorphosed bedrock sediments located adjacent to large crustal...-
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Cockabidnie. Second partial surrender report, for the period 25/5/2016 to 6/4/2021.
Two portions which constitute the majority of the two sub-blocks which form EL 5791, together covering 63 square km or ~82% of the formerly held area, have been relinquished due to their now perceived diminished prospectivity for economic graphite,...-
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Mikkira. Final report at licence surrender, for the period 2/3/1981 to 27/10/1987.
Exploration for graphite and base metals in the Uley - Mikkira region, south-west of Port Lincoln, comprised an aerial INPUT / magnetic / radiometric survey, with ground EM34-3, magnetic, SP and IP surveys to follow-up INPUT responses. 4 EM anomalies...-
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Published: 30 Nov 1987
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Ungarra / Triple Hill. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 30/3/1979 to 7/11/1983.
As part of a regional evaluation of the variably exposed Lower Proterozoic metasedimentary sequence on eastern Eyre Peninsula for possible economic pitchblende mineralisation, portion of a semi-detailed airborne radiometric/magnetic survey was flown...-
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